Streaming Video Channel Scheduling via Multi-Source Gap Filling
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge is to create online streaming channels that cater to niche content preferences, as existing platforms often lack sufficient content to maintain a 24-hour dedicated channel, especially for specialized interests, and users face difficulties in curating engaging content for their personal channels.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that schedules content from multiple sources, including third-party providers, using a content marketplace to fill gaps in streaming schedules by searching for relevant video content based on channel descriptions, allowing for dynamic mixing of live and pre-recorded content to create a continuous, hyper-targeted streaming experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single content provider creates a dedicated video channel for narrow content preferences, then the channel can be hyper-targeted to specific interests, but the provider lacks sufficient content to maintain a 24-hour continuous stream
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines content from multiple providers into a single unified channel. The system merges the narrow-content provider's specialized material with supplementary content from other sources, creating a composite channel that maintains both hyper-targeting for specific interests and sufficient content volume for 24-hour operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The channel system becomes multi-functional by serving both as a hyper-targeted niche channel and as a continuous 24-hour streaming service. It achieves universality by accommodating different content types and providers while maintaining a unified viewing experience for the target audience.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users create personal video channels with limited user-generated content, then the channels can be personalized, but the channels become boring and repetitive due to insufficient content
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges user-generated personal content with professionally provided supplementary content. Users maintain control over their personal channels while the system automatically incorporates additional content from providers, ensuring both personalization and sufficient content volume to prevent boredom and repetition.
3Stability of the object's composition
If a television network streams the same content as its television network to online channels, then brand consistency is maintained, but the network lacks sufficient content for 24-hour dedicated channels
Solution Approach 1:
The content portfolio is segmented into core branded content and supplementary content. The network maintains brand consistency by streaming its own content during peak hours while filling off-peak hours with supplementary content from other providers, effectively extending the 24-hour streaming capability without compromising brand identity.
Solution Approach 2:
The channel employs periodic scheduling where branded content is aired during high-visibility periods and supplementary content fills other time slots. This periodic alternation maintains brand presence while ensuring continuous 24-hour operation with varied content.
Data Source
AI summary
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage device includes functionality for analyzing a streaming video schedule for one or more scheduling gaps and for streaming supplemental content to fill the one or more scheduling gaps. The streaming video schedule comprises a list of start times, end times, and titles to video segments to be streamed over a computer network. The supplemental content may comprise paid or free content and may be provided by a live linear video stream, a data storage device storing video on demand (VOD) content, digital video recorder (DVR) content, a media server, a content delivery network server, a capture video device, or any combination thereof. Particular embodiments include truncating the supplemental content to fill specific gaps in the streaming video schedule, receiving user input for matching and/or search functionality to select supplemental content for streaming, and/or the like.